This past fall a new show hit the scene that was basically spoofed everyone’s favorite horror movie. Scream Queens debuted just in time for the Halloween season, a time that would allow the show to gain popularity based on its genre. If anyone was looking for something new to settle their love for all things Halloween then Scream Queens was the show to see. However, throughout its run Scream Queens failed to get picked up for another season or leave viewers with a good finale.
To retract, Scream Queens is a show centered around a sorority whose members get killed off by a masked Red Devil. Despite a few victims, most of the murders that occurred on campus of Wallace University are all tied to the Red Devil killer, but a question that left both viewers and the characters on the show wondering is, who is the Red Devil?
Each episode gave viewers a clue, starting with the pilot, where a sorority member of Kappa Kappa Tau gives birth to a baby in a bathtub during a house party. This pledge is found by several other sisters, including the then president. Instead of taking the pledge to the hospital, they leave her in the bathtub and continue to party. This pledge dies in the bathtub from loss of blood. This incident goes on to be a Kappa Kappa Tau secret and the motive for the Red Devil killer.
As the series progressed viewers found out that there were actually two babies born in the bathtub that night of the party and that they were raised by a woman known as the Hag of Shady Lane. Nick Jonas makes an appearance on the show as a gay fraternity brother, Boone Hemphill. Boone is seen getting killed by the Red Devil during Hell Week, but is later revealed to have faked his death. This reveals that Boone knows who is the Red Devil and is possibly one of the babies born in the bathtub. Later on viewers also learn that Gigi is the Hag of Shady Lane and the sister to the pledge that died in the bathtub of Kappa. Another question would be who is the other baby? Given how the murders take place it’s obvious that more than one person is The Red Devil.
Despite a bit of harsh words from some critics and viewers, Scream Queens held up nicely throughout its run. Jamie Lee Curtis deserves an applause for her performance as Dean Munsch. Curtis’ character was the only thing that kept Scream Queens going as long as it did. There’s no doubt that most of the fans loved Dean Munsch, she was the one character that just couldn’t die. Even after drinking poisoned apple cider, and walking out of tampered Cryotherapy Munsch has a way of avoiding death. Don’t forget how much of a badass she was defending herself against the Red Devil attack. Without Dean Munsch, Scream Queens would not have been worth watching.
As for the big finale, Scream Queens failed their fans. It was a bit obvious who the Red Devil could have been but for the writers of the show to actually go the route that they did was not creative at all. Hester being revealed as the Red Devil is only half of what is wrong with the end of Scream Queens. The other half of this awful finale is Hester managing to frame Chanel and her minions as the real killer and everyone actually believing it. This was wrong, regardless of it being a television show or not. Then when the Chanels are on trial and are about to be released, Chanel ruins everything and has them sentenced to life in a mental institution. Brownie points for letting the killer get away but a minus for framing other suspects in an unbelievable way.
A finale similar to the movie Clue could have at least saved the show or revealing the Red Devil to be someone no one would have expected, but instead The Red Devil is someone that everyone knew who would be. If the entire season didn't kill Scream Queens chances for another season the finale sure did. Although there is still time for FOX to renew the show for another season, Ryan Murphy has much to work on to make up for the disappointing finale.
